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TIL that Mike Lindell, the inventor of “My Pillow” had a crack addiction so bad that his dealers gave him an intervention.

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Mpy8 TIL the author of “Goodnight Moon” left all of the book’s royalties to her 9-year old neighbor, Albert Clarke, in 1952. Since then, Clarke has been arrested dozens of times, had 2 kids with a homeless woman he met on 6th Avenue in NYC, and has squandered most of the millions he has received.
rNe6o TIL about Kavachi, a submarine volcano in the Solomon Islands. It has been nicknamed "Sharkcano", as it's home to two species of shark that have adapted to living in its hot, acidic environment
b9K97 TIL that the people of the Åland Islands wanted to be annexed by Sweden, but the Swedish government was preoccupied, so they sent them off to the LoN, where a Japanese-influenced delegation handed them over to Finland with a justification they hoped they could use to justify their own imperialism
VMAep TIL: 1856 a schoolmaster warned students not to harm his tame sparrow. One of the boys stepped on the bird and killed it. After lessons, the master took the boy into a private room and strangled him to death. The boy's father later went to the school and shot the schoolmaster dead.
KmdJ TIL that a British sitcom called Dad’s Army, which was based around WWII, actually went on longer than the war itself.